High-Yield Synthesis of [2]Catenanes by Intramolecular Ring-Closing Metathesis

Angewandte Chemie (International Edition in English)

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1308-1310

  Mohr, Bernhard ^a   Weck, Marcus ^b   Sauvage, Jean Pierre ^a   Grubbs, Robert H ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Catenanes; Cyclizalions; Metathesis; Ruthenium; Template synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030738752     PISSN: 05700833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.199713081     Document Type: Article

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